Chuck Berry
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Yeah I like that one too for sure
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Linkin Park may be Reuniting
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Yeah I like that one too for sure
mindfreak191
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RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
TheInfamousKira
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Another pretty good interview with Mike and Emily.
Wolzard
Member
2 - The Emptiness Machine - It was the first one we heard and it's good after listening to it more times. It has a Minutes to Midnight vibe. 8/10
3 - Cut the Bridge - It looks like Blead It Out, same structure. 7/10
4 - Heavy is the crown - This is a new Faint. I think it's the one I liked the most. 9/10
5 - Over Each Other - This one came straight from One More Light, it sounds like Heavy. In this aspect, I liked Emily's voice the most. 8/10
6 - Casualty - The vibe here is Hunting Party, it feels like Victimized. What's wrong here is that I don't like Emily's scream. 5/10
7 - Overflow - Sounds like Imagine Dragons, probably an experiment. It feels a little disjointed with the rest of the album. It looks like music that will be used in a movie. 6/10
8 - Two Faced - Remake of One Step Closer? It also reminds me of Figure 09. Classic nu-metal that Linkin Park never dared to do again. 9/10
9 - Stained - This one came from A Thousand Suns. It's not very striking, but it's pleasant. 7/10
10 - IGYEIH - Another in The Hunting Party style. 7/10
11 - Good Things Go - This one follows the style of Living Things, reminds me of Powerless. Good song to end. 7/10
Overall, it's an album that appeals to nostalgia, as they mixed a lot of styles from the previous albums, whereas this can kind of take away some of the personality from it.
Emily's voice has two nuances. When the songs ask for a clean vocal, her voice is very good, in Over Each Other, her voice matched well. When a "scream" is required, then things unravel, as she doesn't know how to do it very well. But it's very rare for a female vocal to do well, I only remember Candice from Eths and Angela/Alice from Arch Enemy (Metal depends more on that).
Mike Shinoda appears a lot and he helps a lot, I even wonder if he shouldn't have gone it alone, he has the capacity. I really like Fort Minor.
It's impossible to hear it live, I couldn't hear the videos I saw for a long time, they were very out of tune. Maybe in a few years.
3 - Cut the Bridge - It looks like Blead It Out, same structure. 7/10
4 - Heavy is the crown - This is a new Faint. I think it's the one I liked the most. 9/10
5 - Over Each Other - This one came straight from One More Light, it sounds like Heavy. In this aspect, I liked Emily's voice the most. 8/10
6 - Casualty - The vibe here is Hunting Party, it feels like Victimized. What's wrong here is that I don't like Emily's scream. 5/10
7 - Overflow - Sounds like Imagine Dragons, probably an experiment. It feels a little disjointed with the rest of the album. It looks like music that will be used in a movie. 6/10
8 - Two Faced - Remake of One Step Closer? It also reminds me of Figure 09. Classic nu-metal that Linkin Park never dared to do again. 9/10
9 - Stained - This one came from A Thousand Suns. It's not very striking, but it's pleasant. 7/10
10 - IGYEIH - Another in The Hunting Party style. 7/10
11 - Good Things Go - This one follows the style of Living Things, reminds me of Powerless. Good song to end. 7/10
Overall, it's an album that appeals to nostalgia, as they mixed a lot of styles from the previous albums, whereas this can kind of take away some of the personality from it.
Emily's voice has two nuances. When the songs ask for a clean vocal, her voice is very good, in Over Each Other, her voice matched well. When a "scream" is required, then things unravel, as she doesn't know how to do it very well. But it's very rare for a female vocal to do well, I only remember Candice from Eths and Angela/Alice from Arch Enemy (Metal depends more on that).
Mike Shinoda appears a lot and he helps a lot, I even wonder if he shouldn't have gone it alone, he has the capacity. I really like Fort Minor.
It's impossible to hear it live, I couldn't hear the videos I saw for a long time, they were very out of tune. Maybe in a few years.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Yup. Sometimes I wish the more rabid fans can just chill out and say, "Nice try on their attempts at new sound, but I like the other stuff better", instead of assuming the worst possible intentions for the band.
Big Baller
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xVodevil
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First listening was kinda disappointing, guess The Emptiness Machine and Heavy is the crown were indeed perfectly chosen to put the bar very high. Though after a few listens it's getting there alright, time will tell whether it sticks for now. But must admit for me Minutes to Midnight was pretty meh back in the day only to hit harder than ever many years later.
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Doomtrain
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TheInfamousKira
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It's totally a grower. I was kind of dazed and whatever after the first listen, but it's just like it was with the first releases. Five days go by, and I know 80% of the lyrics by heart, having done nothing intentional to memorize them.
sendit
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If they do another video for this album, this needs to be it. Song makes me want to drop kick babies (jk).I Gave You Everything I Had is fucking
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Chuck Berry
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Yeah Overflow is definitely that Thousand Suns energy
TheInfamousKira
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Dude, I was so "....what? lol," when I first heard it, but the production, like you said, very ATS. Has that spacey ethereal vibe that kind of floats over the beat. And then it builds the whole song and the last segment is like full band straight rock with little elements of electronic and trip hop and like....
GOD. This is what LP does. Like clockwork, without missing a beat. Seven years gone and they come back with essentially ten punches in the throat. So brief that initially you're shell shocked kind of, but they pack so fucking much into three and a half minute songs that you can pick up new things years later. Hell, I've discovered new things in Hybrid Theory just from listening to it on different sound systems. They're like a commercial rock band until you get close and realize it's a bunch of really cool eclectic genres arranged to look like a commercial rock band. I mean, yes, they're commercial regardless, but someone knows what I mean.
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
100%. Thousand Suns might be the outlier, but I do think the band works best when the albums are these short and intense, contained focused explosions one after another. It's a very "back in the saddle" record. Gotta get people re-familiarized before really blowing everyone's nuts off in '27 or '28 or whenever the follow up drops.
Overflow has a bunch of Massive Attack in it as well which is fuckin fantastic
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TheInfamousKira
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You hear about all these artists that influence(d) the band over the years, and it's kind of like "Yeah, I can see it...."
But it's really fucking cool when you can HEAR it. They're base sound is a bunch of genres mixed into rock, and I'm sure that has elements of a million artists they grew up listening to, but there's a lot here in the new album where you can specifically point to influences, like Massive Attack for Overflow, or the triplet flow in Good Things Go bridge being a distinctly modern verse. Lots of really cool references to artists and genres while still having really cool references to their own past work. Album totally feels like some schizophrenic holiday where you wake up on Christmas morning and do an Easter egg hunt.
Chuck Berry
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Speaking of easter eggs, there is one at the end of Overflow. When you hear the Walkman closing, the beginning of the Xero song "Fuse" plays for barely over a second before leading into Two Faced lol
I think the little intro riff with the flanger pedal at the beginning of Good Things Go sounds like the beginning of a Cranberries song from 1993
Wolzard
Member
I'm sorry, but this is really bad, you have the same problem as Emily. To make a good scream, it is necessary not to overdo the highs, otherwise it will become irritating.
See Candice in Eths.
TheInfamousKira
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Speaking of easter eggs, there is one at the end of Overflow. When you hear the Walkman closing, the beginning of the Xero song "Fuse" plays for barely over a second before leading into Two Faced lol
I think the little intro riff with the flanger pedal at the beginning of Good Things Go sounds like the beginning of a Cranberries song from 1993
Pretty sure Overflow starts with the sample Joe used for With You on Hybrid Theory, just without scratches. That high pitched sample.
Edit: sample I'm talking about is 13 seconds into Overflow.
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mindfreak191
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They're live streaming the first 6 songs of their Sao Paulo show:
TheInfamousKira
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mindfreak191
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I skimmed a bit through it last night...Don't get me wrong, I'm seeing them live as soon as I secure tickets on Monday, but I really, really hope that Emily actually sings most of the songs when I see them next year...like, I'm all for holding the mic out to the fans to hear them, but it seems to me she does it almost every song for a quite noticeable time and I don't want to say that it's because she's saving her voice since she does it at the simple parts of a song too.
Chuck Berry
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Paasei
Member
Listening to the album now, so far it brings me back to many older songs as if they share resemblance. Kinda nice, especially with a new singer so everyone can get adjusted to how it would sound when the big hits are being played live.
I for one am quite excited to see them in 2025 in Arnhem, as I managed to get tickets yesterday.
I for one am quite excited to see them in 2025 in Arnhem, as I managed to get tickets yesterday.
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
Damn
I need that IGYEIH live performance asap
Proof positive the pendulum keeps swinging. People are fucking thirsty for this type of rock music and this album proves LP can provide that still even after seven years.
Crazy good times we in
I need that IGYEIH live performance asap
Proof positive the pendulum keeps swinging. People are fucking thirsty for this type of rock music and this album proves LP can provide that still even after seven years.
Crazy good times we in
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TheInfamousKira
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We had been in the dark ages of rap and trap forever. Now these legacy guys are all reuniting at a pace you'd think that there had been music prohibition for fifty years.
Donald mac Ronald
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I can't believe they're playing one stop on the UK and like 5 in Germany wtf?
No way is linkin park bigger in Germany than UK.
Also fuck modern pricing for artists at arenas. Me and my friend attempt to get tickets for London show and all that was left were shit like 250 each and 500 each for standing...
No way is linkin park bigger in Germany than UK.
Also fuck modern pricing for artists at arenas. Me and my friend attempt to get tickets for London show and all that was left were shit like 250 each and 500 each for standing...
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TheInfamousKira
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Yeah, concert scene has been nuts this year price wise. I'm a proud youtube livestream groupie.
mindfreak191
Member
It's not that hard to believe that their German fanbase is bigger than their UK fanbase. Every third German I know has listened to them or is still listening to them lol.
Syphon Filter
Member
the album is ok but not that great. i was expecting better.
AeonGaidenRaiden
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Its better and more LP than the last 3 albums they put out. Especially that dog shit One More Light that has maybe 2 "OK" songs.
AeonGaidenRaiden
Member
LP is an older band, more established, and has bazillion more sales and mainstream appeal. Architects make jent metalcore chaotic music in an oversaturated genre where everyone sounds the same. Even Bring Me The Horizon would be opening for LP. Linkin is hundreds of times a more popular band, of course they are going to be opening for them and not the other way around. Architects had their first arena tour like 1 year ago lol, LP was doing arenas since 2001.
kevboard
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going by album sales they are basically on the same level of popularity in both countries.
the 1 big difference however is that, for example, for the Düsseldorf concert, they also probably expect many Dutch people to drive over for the concert... or for Berlin, many from Poland might come to the concert too.
Germany is located VERY centrically in Europe and the EU, with easy train and highway access across entirely open country borders.
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Doomtrain
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I'm not suggesting Linkin Park should open for Architects. I love both bands, but Linkin Park is exponentially bigger. I'm saying I think it's cool that Architects got the opportunity to do it.
AeonGaidenRaiden
Member
Ahhh ok my bad. I thought you went the other way and meant Architects are too good to be opening for LP
Stephen Curry
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I was looking at their first show in LA and saw the same prices when the tickets dropped. Checked again like 2 hours before the show and floor tickets were going for $70. Kinda regret not pulling the trigger.
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Chuck Berry
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TheInfamousKira
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Mixed much better than the televised stream. LP does pretty great in-house soundboard mixing.
